Last Chance to Sign

Posted on April 13, 2018April 15, 2018 by GSTL-NORML

The New Approach Missouri (NAM) campaign to put medical marijuana on the November 6, 2018 ballot will end in a matter of days. Your signature is desperately needed to ensure our success. Greater St. Louis NORML has initiated a digital billboard campaign to help spread the word to registered voters. You can help sustain our campaign with donations here. Add your signature to our petition drive. Find the closest St. Louis Metro permanent signing location here www.newapproachmissouri.com unti...

Missouri Cannabis Industry Conference Opens With Packed House

Posted on March 24, 2018 by GSTL-NORML

Missiouri Cannabis Industry Association conference in St. Louis, Missouri

Missouri's first cannabis industry conference kicked off in St. Louis at 9:00 am Friday, March 23, 2018 in the City Place Hotel conference facility. More than 200 future cannabis entrepreneurs from across the Show-Me state came to learn how legal, regulated and taxed medical marijuana businesses will operate in Missouri. As the New Approach Missouri campaign to legalize medical marijuana enters the final signature gathering phase, local, state and nationwide interest is increasing. The Mis...

Local Campaign Challenges Missouri Cannabis Prohibition

Posted on March 15, 2018March 17, 2018 by GSTL-NORML

Prohibition Doesn't Work Billboard launches March 16, 2018

The local St. Louis metro chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) has embarked on a new and exciting campaign to change marijuana laws in Missouri. Beginning March 16, 2018, Greater St. Louis NORML (GSTL NORML) launched a public interest campaign with a series of billboards to engage the public about marijuana laws and public policy. Public approval of marijuana legalization has reached its highest level this year. Six-in-ten Americans, or 61%, say...

Stop Jeff Sessions

Posted on January 11, 2018 by GSTL-NORML

Stephen Colbert blasts Jeff Sessions on Marijuana

ACTION ALERT Tell Your Representative To Support The McClintock-Polis Amendment Since 2014, members of Congress have passed annual spending bills that have included a provision protecting those who engage in the state-sanctioned use and dispensing of medical cannabis from undue prosecution by the Department of Justice. The amendment, known as the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer Amendment, maintains that federal funds cannot be used to prevent states from “implementing their own state laws that auth...

Greater St. Louis NORML January 8, 2018 Chapter Meeting

Posted on January 1, 2018February 20, 2018 by GSTL-NORML

Board Bill 180 and the Legislation Committee responsible for passage.

Greater St. Louis NORML January Chapter Meeting Monday, January 8, 2018, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Join us for our first meeting of 2018. It may be cold outside, but we'll be cooking up some hot topics on the cannabis legalization front. Jonathon Callicoat of HOPS 21 will be speaking and George Nolen will give us a Skype tour of a cannabis grow facility in Oregon! Find out the latest developments about the New Approach Missouri campaign to legalize medical cannabis in Missouri. The campaign is r...

Debunked Within Minutes: Setting The Record Straight

Posted on November 11, 2017February 8, 2018 by GSTL-NORML

Cannabis could be legal to possess and cultivate in the City of St. Louis with passage of Board Bill 180 (BB180). The proposed legislation aims to legalize cannabis possession for adults 21 and older up to 56 grams (2.0 ounces) and allow private individual cultivation of up to 10 plants. The policy analysis below was commissioned by Board President Lewis Reed. It contains several inaccurate facts and statements from Reed's political analyst. Reed has attempted to compare a legalization in...

Saint Louis Medical Cannabis Summer Fundraiser

Posted on August 1, 2017August 1, 2017 by GSTL-NORML

Greater St. Louis NORML signature gathering booth with New Approach Missouri

New Approach Missouri is having a Summer Fundraiser in St. Louis on Tuesday, August 08, 2017, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. The campaign to legalize medical cannabis in Missouri is in full swing. “We have gathered nearly 50,000 signatures,” announced John Payne, New Approach Missouri (NAM) campaign manager, to nearly 30,000 medical cannabis legalization supporters across the state in a communication. “Summer is here, and that means our campaign for medical cannabis is moving into high gear,” offered...

Legalization Campaign Pursues Matching Funds

Posted on June 26, 2017June 27, 2017 by GSTL-NORML

Cannabis activists meet for a strategy session for New Approach Missouri

New Approach Missouri's (NAM) ballot petition to legalize medical cannabis in Missouri is closing in on 40,000 signatures. That figure was reported by campaign manager John Payne in a memorandum to volunteers and donors on June 23, 2017. A citizen-initiated constitutional amendment requires 160,199 valid signatures to be placed on the ballot for Missouri's 2018 general election. The campaign's goal is to gather more than 100,000 additional signatures to win challenges by election officials. ...

Florida Pushed Past Missouri with Hemp Bill

Posted on June 26, 2017June 26, 2017 by GSTL-NORML

Missouri legislators have been one-upped again as another state has legalized hemp cultivation. Nineteen states have done what Missouri legislators have failed to do for the last three years running; allow Missouri to start an industrial hemp pilot program. Florida will now move ahead of Missouri in cultivating hemp. Florida's Governor Rick Scott signed an Industrial Hemp Pilot Project bill into law on June 16, 2017. The hemp bill passed the Florida House with a majority support of 108 YEA...

Nevada’s Green Rush Leaves Missouri in the Dust

Posted on May 31, 2017 by GSTL-NORML

Nevad's early start adult-use cannabis program starts mid-2017.

Missouri cannabis activists will be watching from the sidelines again as another state scrambles to hire hundreds of cannabis industry workers and braces for tens of millions of retail cannabis sales to adults starting this summer. Nevada state officials couldn't wait until January 1, 2018 to start their voter-approved adult-use cannabis market. The state's tax officials approved temporary regulations at the end of May for retail cannabis sales mid-2017. Now the rush is on to get ready for re...